TRAVEL FROM ONE TIME ZONE TO ANOTHER WITH THE MONTBLANC TIMEWALKER WATCHES FOR GLOBETROTTERS

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MontBlanc TimeWalker World Time Hemispheres -Northern Hemisphere Watch

In today’s borderless society, globalization ranks among the most important aspects of modern life. Goods and services are exchanged around the planet. Financial currents follow the opening hours of the world’s stock exchanges and flow around the world once each day. Residing in Germany, cultivating business relationships in the USA and enjoying holidays in the Seychelles: such arrangements and countless variations on them have become everyday features in modern people’s lives. But this global presence has its cost because the sun never really sets on our planet: only from the local perspective does the sun appear to sink below the horizon, while it simultaneously rises into the sky elsewhere on Earth. If an American executive goes to a business dinner in Shanghai at eight o’clock in the evening, his family will still be fast asleep in San Francisco, where the local time is five o’clock in the morning, while his colleagues at European headquarters in Paris will be returning from their lunch break.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 23: (L-R) Actor Christophe Lambert wearing the Montblanc TimeWalker World-Time Hemispheres (Northern Hemisphere), Montblanc friends of the brand Olivia Palermo (wearing Montblanc Star Classique Automatic watch) and Johannes Huebl (wearing Montblanc Star 4810 Chronograph) visit the Montblanc booth during the SIHH 2013 on January 23, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Montblanc)

That’s why global living makes it so important to keep a sharp eye on time zones and time differences in one’s interactions with partners, friends, colleagues, loved ones and clients. One certainly wouldn’t want to needlessly awaken a loved one or a customer with an ill-timed long-distance phone call in the middle of the night. Such mishaps are the undesirable results of failure to take time differences into account.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 23: Lutz Bethge, CEO Montblanc International (L) and Dr.Uwe Ellinghaus (R), Executive Vice President Marketing & Sales Montblanc International visit the Montblanc booth during the SIHH 2013 on January 23, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Montblanc)

Watches that simultaneously show the time in more than one zone are accordingly an important specialty for watchmakers. Such timepieces belong to a genre in which MONTBLANC has achieved several attention-getting feats. These so-called “time-zone watches” can satisfy very different requirements for globetrotters and frequent flyers. Among these functions are the simultaneous display of the times in both the user’s local and home zones or the UTC (COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME +/- TIME ZONE) FUNCTION, but also the ability to show all of the planet’s 24 time zones at a glance, including day/night indication for the home zone, as well as showing the date, facilitating quick and easy changes from one zone’s display to another, etc.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 22: (L-R) Actor Christophe Lambert wearing the Montblanc TimeWalker World-Time Hemispheres (Northern Hemisphere) watch, Montblanc friend of the brand Olivia Palermo (wearing Montblanc Star Classique Automatic watch), Lutz Bethge, CEO Montblanc International and Johannes Huebl (wearing Montblanc Star 4810 Chronograph) attend the Montblanc VIP dinner at SIHH 2013 on January 22, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Montblanc)

JUST IN TIME FOR CURRENT WINTER SNAP, BIONOVA INTRODUCES NANO SKIN TECH™ GENERATION OF HAND CREAMS

BIONOVA’S NANO SKIN TECH™ APPROACH BRINGS HEALTHY, FLAWLESS SKIN TO EVERYONE!

In the past, hands flawless skin was the sign of nobility. Wearing gloves was almost mandatory for women in later centuries and remained so until the 1960’s. They had a dual function: to nurture the skin and protect it from the harsh environment and as a fashion ornament. Today, with the high speed of life it is hard to pay much attention to this body part even though we all know that Hands are the busiest area and tend to age fast.

BIONOVA: SCIENCE BEAUTY CUSTOMIZATION. (PRNewsFoto/BIONOVA)

FASHION SHOW REVIEW: MICHAEL KORS SPRING/SUMMER 2013 COLLECTION (revised)

A COLLECTION WITH BRIGHT OPTIMISM FOR DARK TIMES

Text by PHILLIP D. JOHNSON/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Runway Images photographed by SHELDON BALDIE and Cheryl Gorski/www.fashionmaniac.com 

Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2013 Collection (Photographed by Cheryl Gorski/www.fashionmaniac.com)

MICHAEL KORS has always been a designer (and an under-appreciated clothing retailer) with his feet firmly planted on the ground. His head is always thinking of the reality of the here and now. From the very beginning of his career, Mr. Kors has always been one—with the exception of a few unforgettable collections, “Palm Bitch”, anyone—to keep his flights of fancy clearly in check. He’s inspired, through meeting his devoted customers at his very successful trunks shows around the country, to design for the “real” customers he has, not for imaginary women who exists only in the clouds. So, as his career has progressed, he has become one of the top go-to designers for women who desires creativity, smart design and a sense of comfort (and sense of self) all rolled in one when they dress to face the world, either on the job, at lunch with friends and/or on the charity ball circuit.

Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2013 Collection (Photographed by Cheryl Gorski/www.fashionmaniac.com)

Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2013 Collection (@Sheldon Baldie/www.fashionpluslifestyle.wordpress.com)

AN APPRECIATION: BEAUTY BEYOND BEAUTY AT THE CHANEL SPRING/SUMMER 2013 HAUTE COUTURE SHOW

by Phillip D. Johnson/Editorial Director

Lookbook Images courtesy of www.fashiongonerogue.com)

Runway Images: www.chanel.com 

Chanel Spring/Summer 2013 Haute Couture Collection (www.chanel.com)

Chanel Spring/Summer 2013 Haute Couture Collection (www.chanel.com)

I love KARL LAGERFELD’s work for CHANEL (even when I don’t immediately get where he’s going with the collection), especially his Haute Couture showings. He’s just one of the leading creative minds—in any industry—of our generation and has been so for the past 50 years. Having said that, I LOVED LOVED his SPRING/SUMMER 2013 HAUTE COUTURE show, recently held in Paris. Mr. Lagerfeld was inspired by—but not restricted to—the pre-World War One Poiret, La Gazette du Bon Ton and Les Choses de Poiret vues par Lepape — seminal publications of the time — that were odes to the romantic fluffiness of 1930s evenings and up to the 50s and today.

DEPECHE MODE NEW STUDIO ALBUM ‘DELTA MACHINE’ SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 26TH ON COLUMBIA RECORDS

DEPECHE MODE TO DEBUT VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE ‘HEAVEN’ ON VEVO NEXT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST

DEPECHE MODE have announced they will release their highly anticipated 13^th studio album, entitled “DELTA MACHINE,” on March 26^th worldwide via COLUMBIA RECORDS. The album, recorded over the last year in Santa Barbara, California and New York City, was produced by BEN HILLIER and mixed by FLOOD. In addition to the album announcement, the group have also confirmed that the video for the first single “Heaven” will debut on VEVO next Friday, February 1^st.

Depeche Mode New Studio Album ‘Delta Machine’ Set For Release March 26th on Columbia Records. (PRNewsFoto/Columbia Records)

Alongside a standard CD format, DEPECHE MODE will release DELTA MACHINE in an exclusive DELUXE EDITION with four additional new tracks and accompanied by a 28 page hardcover book including photos by longtime artistic collaborator ANTON CORBIJN (please see track listing, as well as album and single configurations below).